Military observers are right when they closely follow the remarkable developments of the military situation in Bakhmut. Because after fighting for every square meter and blindly sacrificing thousands of people, the Russians are threatening themselves with a symbolic pushback so resounding that it could mark the beginning of a real pushback, or at least a series of reverses.
It may be too early to confirm the dynamics, but the continued encirclement of Yevgeny Prigogine’s private Wagner militia by a surprise maneuver by the Ukrainians, who pretended to retreat, is food for thought. It shows how well the Ukrainians have learned to master the art of betrayal and asymmetric maneuvering.
Wagner’s encirclement may have marked the end of the bloody “gloriole” of the privateer, which boasted of demonstrating its superiority over the regular Russian army but lamented its lack of ammunition.
“If we fall, then the whole front will collapse…
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Source: Le Figaro
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